Based: Mpumalanga

24-year-old Karabo Mogane from Nelspruit has already shown the most dramatic turnaround in this season of Idols SA, from Somizi Mhlongo complaining that he had “a dishwashing-water personality” at his original audition in Pretoria, to where the same Somizi exclaimed after Karabo’s solo audition at Sun City that he was now his Number One fan, and called him “one of the best male vocalists in the competition”. Before entering Idols SA Karabo studied Geoinformatics at the University of Stellenbosch  “but just because I find it life changing,” he says. “Music will always come first in my life.”